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Default event type

Former Member over 16 years ago

It would be nice to be able to set a user defined default event type for each uploaded activity, instead of the current "uncategorized" (which probably is the least used type anyway). The activity type defaults to running as I wish, and if I could set my event type to "training" by default it would mean one less step of editing for almost all of my uploads.

Thanks,
Erik

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0 Former Member over 16 years ago

I agree having a default event type would be nice.

April

0 saeedi over 16 years ago

... and a default activity type. Cycling activities show up as cycling and would be nice to have them show up as Road Biking sub-activity type. And I walk more than I run, so I would like the Forerunner running activities show up as Speed Walking.

I believe these may be down the road.

0 Former Member over 16 years ago

...and the default activity name should be the name of the TCX file (date/time) as it was in MB. If configured it could be the name of the starting place as well, but I would prefer date/time, or a concatenation of both.

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Both default activity type and default event type. Running, cycling etc isn't good enough and uncategorised is meaningless

0 kjetil.monge over 13 years ago

Perhaps not essential, but beeing able to set default activity and event type ,after new workouts has been uploaded, would be appreciated.
As I often stick to the same types, it is a little bit annoying that I have to manually change it every time.

0 Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to kjetil.monge

Agreed

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

For 5 years I have seen this issue raised and unaddressed by GARMIN: for all that time, EVERY run/bike/swim I do I have to change Event Type manually from "Uncategorized" to Training. Wake Up Garmin! Adding an extra field on this page can't be so hard: https://connect.garmin.com/settings

0 nradov over 6 years ago

After you sync an activity to Garmin Connect you can select a specific event type: Fitness, Race, Recreational, Training, etc. Most of my Run and Bike activities are Training. I'd like to be able to select a default event type for each activity type and have that automatically filled in.

0 Bry_Lander over 6 years ago in reply to nradov

It would be great to have all of my activities default to Event Type: "Fitness" instead of "Unknown", since that category covers 99% of what I do and would save me the time of editing every activity afterward.

0 Phil over 5 years ago in reply to nradov

This would be an excellent feature. At the very least the default should be set to training or fitness. Every day I have to click on my activity, click on the dots on the top right, click on edit activity, click on event type, and then change it to fitness. Super annoying.